With politics in full swing after last week’s Iowa caucuses and next week’s New Hampshire primary, it’s easy to overload on words right now. Candidates pour words aplenty upon the voters, some true, some truish, some true lite, and the rest regular old false. But while people sometimes distort the truth, words themselves don’t lie. That’s why the nonprofit Global Language Monitor releases a list of top words, expressions and other linguistic notables each year. Often the best way to understand a year is to explore the words that were invented or used most often during that time.
~ An excerpt from my Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008 column in the Hibbing Daily Tribune. Read the whole column at www.minnesotabrown.com, in the Sunday paper or archived here.
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